My great grandmother’s family lived in a small town in the Ukraine called Priluki for a very long time. I was able to trace my family back to about 1760 but they could have been there for hundreds of year before. My great great grandfather was a butcher. He was born in 1830. He died … Continue reading
Category Archives: Avram’s Past
The internet is a miracle maker
How my family was reunited after more than a hundred years. Continue reading
You know you are old when your greatest contribution to the future is documenting the past
While I am still very much interested in the future, I have come to realize that I know a lot more about the past particularly with respect to technology. After all I was working with computer before most of the people that use them were born. For the last few years I have been working … Continue reading
The Crash of ’87
Kevin Maney who use to be at USA Today and is now at Portfolio wrote a column on some of the changes that we have experienced in the last twenty years (since the stock market crash of 1987). Those of you (there may be one or two) that read my blog regularly know that I … Continue reading
Fourty four years ago, I went to jail for the first time
Forty four years ago I went to jail for the first time. I was arrested at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco as part of a Civil Rights demonstration. It is funny to think that the last time I was at the Palace Hotel it was for a Web 2.0 conference. I doubt that many … Continue reading
The Spring of Love
It is forty years since the Summer of Love. And there are “reenactments” up all over the country. I am trying to imagine what this group (many if not most in their sixties) looks like now. I remember the hit item at the time was LSD (and I do not mean the Mormons). This year … Continue reading
Conan Obrien visits Intel
This is a very funny video with Conan O’Brien visiting Intel. I do not know how it happens but it is a typical example of Intel poking fun at itself. The company does have humor although these days they might not be finding as much to laugh about. See the video here. When I interviewed for … Continue reading
Young Enough to be my grandson
Yesterday I had a two hour lunch with a young entrepreneur. While I am use to working with men and women young enough to be my children (like Simon and David the founders of http://www.heavy.com), this was the first time I can remember meeting with a CEO who was young enough to be my grandson. … Continue reading
My first computer (the PDP-7 1966)
In 1966 when I was 21, I had a major career decision to make. My main choices were between being a poet (I actually wrote some pretty good poems), being a musician (but all buddies wanted to get stone and then practice while I wanted to practice and then get stoned), go to jail a … Continue reading
My first Mobile Phone
Avram’s first mobil phone Just to prove I have always been a head of my time check out the photo below. Remember this is 1946 folks. Continue reading
Two Thirds Done 